On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:25:34 +0200 Pierre Marchand <capparis at free.fr> wrote:
> Vous (Animesh Das) avez ?crit?: [...] > > Is there any possiblity to do the process more faster? > > As avox said once when I asked the very same question: "Yes, help to release > 1.3.5" :) Fair enough. I will chip in by polishing up the spell-checking plugin. > > Is it possible to > > use ICU as the rendering engine,as ICU is Indic text supported. > > Scribus will primarily use a third party library. There are 3 possibilities > I?m aware of: > 1/ Harfbuzz - the community choice, not publicly released yet. > 2/ ICU - supported by a big company, working. > 3/ M17N - outsider in this area, but I like their DB based system. > > TBH, as I already did it for fontmatrix, I would be tempted to offer choice > to > the user and support both (at least ICU & Harfbuzz). What?s pretty sure is > that OpenType support will be achieved through Harbuzz OT processor module, > even if ICU or other is used for shaping. [...] I think that Harfbuzz should definitely be the longer-term target. My only fear is that the longer-term keeps getting longer and longer. ICU is here, and works now. My impression from talking to avox was that ICU/Pango does not quite meet the need for the details that Scribus needs. However, if it is adequate enough for shaping, then we can volunteer to help integrate ICU. I am not sure what OpenType handling needs Scribus has, nor of the current state of the Harfbuzz OpenType module. Would libotf from m17n be a possible interim solution if Harfbuzzz OT is still under development? Regards, Gora
